From today, June 1, electronic health insurance cards officially replace paper cards.

From June 1, the social insurance agency stopped issuing paper health insurance cards. People will use electronic health insurance cards with biometrics, increasing safety and limiting profiteering when examining and treating patients.

The Social Insurance Agency will stop issuing paper health insurance cards to health insurance participants from June 1, except in cases where there is no chip-embedded citizen identification card and VNeID or VssID cannot be installed. Instead, people will use electronic health insurance cards when going to see a doctor or get medical treatment.

According to Vietnam Social Security, electronic methods to replace paper health insurance cards include the VssID application - digital social insurance, the VNeID application, or chip-embedded citizen identification cards. Electronic cards use biometric technology for authentication, increase safety, limit profiteering, and facilitate health insurance medical examination and treatment.

Statistics show that by early 2025, the whole country will have 95.52 million people participating in health insurance, reaching 94.2% of the population participating in health insurance.

Vietnam Social Security has connected and shared data between the national population database and the insurance database, authenticating more than 100.2 million citizen information, of which about 90.9 million people are participating in social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance, accounting for 99.2% (excluding armed forces).

At the same time, 100% of health insurance medical examination and treatment facilities have deployed the use of chip-embedded citizen identification cards with more than 214 million searches of health insurance card information via personal identification number/citizen identification card, helping to shorten the procedure time to only 6 - 15 seconds.

The leaders of Vietnam Social Security said that using the image of health insurance cards on the VssID and VNeID applications helps people look up information easily, without having to carry paper cards, reducing procedures when examining and treating patients.

Social Insurance is coordinating with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Public Security and relevant agencies to pilot the connection of health insurance medical examination and treatment data to serve the implementation of electronic health books, referral papers, and re-examination appointment papers integrated on the VNeID application.

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